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First off, I'll start this off by saying this - I suck at this game.

Now, there's a lot of problems with the game that exacerbates that fact like frame perfect AI reaction at 60fps, and the fact that players in the top alliances are given a leg up in every other mode, the players that are top players in BGs are given a leg up in every other mode, and that those players are often the same players meaning they will always have bigger rosters at higher sigs than the average player let alone players such as myself.

Kabam has created the nine progression levels as a way to separate the player base both for content and sales. But I stand here today to say that progression levels aren't an indicator of skill level. They are an indicator of interest in the game and perserverance. Most of my alliance mates remember me spending over 10K units to get pass the Grandmaster to get Thronebreaker. Paragon was some what better but it still cost me about 4K units at the final fight. Valiant was a bit better at around 2K units. All of those units spent were after completely emptying my stash of revives and health pots both in my inventory and overflow.

I'm a Valiant player. If just being a Valiant player meant that I should do well in BGs then I would. However, I regularly go 15 to 20 losses in a row. It took me over 300 revives and countless health pots to do two lanes in Necropolis. I regularly get stopped at level 5 or 6 in Incursions even after watching all the latest "ZOMG! Do this for instant clear on Saga Incursions!!!!!!"

There's nearly 300 champs in the game now and I don't remember how to fight each one nor do I remember what each node does when combined with a specific champ. And Kabam doesn't help with that since their descriptions aren't always the most clear.

So why am I posting this? Because I'm tired of seeing posts from @Kabam Crashed, and others, that use the progression title as an assumption of what level of skill you should be considered. @Metalsonicdude and I are both Valiant players, I am no where near the same skill level as him (and how boring would that be, I often feel sorry for the lack of challenge in the game for players at his level). Kabam needs to determine a better method of deciding how hard a piece of content is and we need need ELO for AW and BGs. The current ranking system for AW keeps good alliances down. Without ELO in BGs, Kabam will continue to force BGs to be a niche mode no matter how much streams and Kabam Crashed wants it to be THE mode.

If games with PvP and ELO, I've always done well and by playing people at my initial skill level, I've consistently moved up the ranks throughout the years. Just putting me, as a Valiant player with no R4s and still needing to use 6-stars on my roster, in a game with an opponent that has 4 R4s and 26 R3s, all awakened and usually at a fairly high sig, doesn't teach me anything at all, especially if I don't have champs that work well in the meta for the season.

We may both be Valiant level progression, but we're not the same skill level. Kabam needs to acknowledge that fact and stop using progression as a stand-in for skill level.

I think Black Bolt's kit is a little funny. Putting aside the general pillow-handedness of a champion who could split the Earth in two if he sneezed, I also find his SP2 really random. Not only is the "flying screwdriver" animation for it extremely confusing considering who he is, it's also the only one of his special attacks that doesn't have true damage. All of his special attacks have true damage and a chance to stun the opponent, except for the one special attack that is usually the main damage-dealer for most champions, which is just inexplicably worse than both his SP1 and SP3 and only has a chance to stun.

Additionally, his signature ability just states that he "has a chance" to gain buffs whenever he either strikes the opponent with a critical hit or is critically hit himself, but it never states exactly what chance that is. He could have a 1% chance or he could have a 200% chance, we just don't know. It's also seemingly not a chance that goes up with his signature level. It's just hidden, all the time, no matter what, for no discernible reason.

Kabam, please buff Black Bolt. Make him make sense.